Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water? This is a joyful swimming tour of Britain, a frog’s-eye view of the country’s best bathing holes – the rivers, rock pools, lakes, ponds, lochs and sea that define a watery island. Charming, funny, inspiring, an assertion of the native swimmer's right to roam, a celebration of the magic of water – this book will indeed make you want to strip off and leap in. Selected from the book Waterlog by Roger Deakin VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series: Eating by Nigella Lawson Liberty by Virginia Woolf Summer by Laurie Lee Desire by Haruki Murakami
| ISBN: | 9781784872762 |
| Publication date: | 8th June 2017 |
| Author: | Roger Deakin |
| Publisher: | Vintage Classics an imprint of Vintage Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 128 pages |
| Series: | Vintage Minis |
| Genres: |
Underwater (sub-aqua) swimming Autobiography: sport Cultural studies Swimming and diving Sea life and the seashore: general interest |